4) You can search for files within a folder or a shared drive. It's super handy because sometimes you remember a file was *somewhere*. Right click on the folder and search within it.
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I love being a PM on Drive search, because people tell me "hey, wouldn't it be nice if Drive search did this" and then I get to share with them, often, that it does. 7 reasons why Drive search is amazing.
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1) We do optical character recognition on PDFs and images you upload so you can search for text within it.
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2) We do image recognition: you can upload a photo of the moon and we'll recognize it. Even a screenshot of an image of the moon. Go on, try it.
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3) I can't share specifics here but our search indexing is fast. Like crazy fast. Upload a file and then immediately search for it.
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5) We have machine learning everywhere, from ranking to retrieval of files. But one obvious way to see this is to just type a year, or a typo. We'll give you suggestions to improve it.
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6) If you're a Workspace user, you can now search Google Drive from the Chrome URL bar *without* using "drive + TAB". It's magic. You just type a few words and voila, you get Drive files that you can open directly. Works with operators too, like "type:spreadsheet".
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7) And as a reminder, Drive search is crazy complicated, more so than Google Web or Gmail. It's because we have both a public index (search files shared with you) and private index. We need to quickly search across both and the rerank them. Like a personalized Google Web search.
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8) Oh hey we launched another thing. No more digging around in Gmail for the file your colleague shared with you. It's like a Swiss Army tool for your most important collaboration documents.
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